These great beasts] That is, to say kingdomes, Dan. 2. 38, 39. They are savage beasts in consideration of their dealing against the families of our Lords ancestors the house of Zorobabel, and the nation that should have their kings from it. foure kings] He useth the terme kings rather then kingdomes, that the next verse short in the Chaldee should not be mistaken, and that none should thinke of foure kings to hold a kingdome for ever, yea for ever and ever: the Prophet was willing to hide his minde from savage heathen. shall arise out of the earth] Their arising, what it meaneth, it may be gathered by the next verse: arising over the kingdome of the Saints, and withholding it.